ROOM.] GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 239 
cap. One dedicated by Hiero I. to Jupiter Olympius, on the occa- 
sion of his naval victory over the Tuscans, at Cum;©, in the 3rd year 
of the 76th Olympiad, b.c. 474. Found at Olympia. 
Cases 46 — 51. Steel yards ; weights, many of them in the shape of 
busts; bells; sacrificial knives; hatchet heads of bronze; three cistas, 
one commonly known as the Townleian cista, found at Prseneste ; en- 
graved with the subject of the sacrifice of Polyxena, and divinities; 
another with two comic actors standing, one holding a lamp, in full re- 
lief, on the cover. Presented by S. Campanari. 
A smaller cista, with three figures on the cover representing Hercules 
as an infant, attacked by two snakes, and lamenting; similar cistas were 
used to hold the strigils, or combs, lecythi, or oil vases, and paint 
vases, used for the bath or the toilet. Bronze tripodial hearth, ler^apov, 
or foculus, found at Cervetri or Ceere, with the charcoal still on it; with 
this are a pair of tongs, a wheel, and a cyathus, or scraper for the ashes 
, creagra, or vriftKcopoXov , instruments used in cookery to take boiled 
meat out of the cauldron, or move the entrails ; tripods, three Roman, 
one ornamented with sphinxes and other ornaments ; another of archaic 
style, found at Csere or Cervetri, with Hercules : Boreas carrying away 
tireithyia ; the upper part of a tripod, spherical, and consequently 
votive or decorative, with tridents and heads of hippocampi ; various 
fragments and parts of furniture. 
Cases 52, 53. Candelabra from the Etruscan sepulchres ; these 
candelabra (Xv%vux) were renowned throughout Greece, and imported 
to Athens ; the tops of some surmounted with small figures ; others with 
the body formed by a figure : one of the smaller ones has the pin for 
the lamp, which terminates in the anterior part of a gryphon ; on one 
from Vulci or Canino is Peleus seizing Thetis, who endeavours to 
escape by changing herself into a snake ; others, with Athletse holding 
strigils, halteres, or leaping dumb-bells; Jupiter and Juno standing, 
and a warrior, with a shield, on which is engraved the head of Fear. 
To these are attached the vases by which liquids have been taken out 
of jars and cauldrons. 
Case 54. Smaller candelabra of the Roman period ; some with ani- 
mals climbing up the stem, and used for holding lamps ; one exhibiting 
the manner in w 7 hich the lamps were placed ; others with pins to receive 
wax candles ; larger Roman candelabra for lamps. 
Cases 56, 57. Thuribula, or censers in the shape of busts, with 
chains for carrying them ; bronze lamps. 
Case 58 — 64. Bronze vases ; consisting of jugs, brasiers, cauldrons, 
unguent vases ; one vase of singular shape, and found at the ancient 
Cervetri, is remarkable for having the figures of animals disposed in 
friezes all round it, and was presented by the Marquis of Northampton. 
Case 65. Bronze votive figures, Jupiter and Juno; Aphrodite, or 
Proserpine, with pomegranate ; Perseus and Medusa ; Hephaistos, 
old figure ; Proserpine, holding a pomegranate ; from a mirror ; same, 
with two lions; Aphrodite, standing on a pedestal of two lions; man, 
perhaps Orion, holding two lions by their tails, at foot, a ram ; 
Aphrodite, or Venus ; on her head two swans ; from a mirror ; same, 
holding a dove from mirrors or vessels; Ariadne reclining, holding a 
lyre ; two figures of Hermes, bearing on his head two rams. 
Case 66. Six figures of Juno Sospita ; figure from a mirror ; Her- 
